Patient advocates can help people navigate billing, services, and a range of other non-medical aspects of living in a nursing home or assisted living. It’s difficult for most people to comprehend just ...
If you receive a diagnosis that will require a major intervention, such as hospitalization, chemotherapy or surgery, consider getting a second opinion. Why? Because medicine is almost as much art as ...
If you think that holding a job, being a partner and parenting three kids while receiving care for stage 4 breast cancer is plenty, you’re absolutely right. But not for Stefanie LeJeunesse. She’s ...
Long COVID makes me think about a phrase in a “Sound of Music” song, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?”: “How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?” To scientists studying long COVID, that’s ...
Baker, a patient and patient advocate based in the United Kingdom, received a diagnosis of essential thrombocythemia (ET) in ...
In observation of Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs) Awareness Month, Dr. Pamela L. Kunz sat down for an interview with CURE to ...
Parents and caregivers play a crucial role in advocating for their child’s healthcare needs, acting as their voice and actively participating in medical decisions, especially when the child is young ...
Kathy Giusti was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, when she was a 37-year-old executive at the drug company G.D. Searle. She was told she had three years to live. Twenty-eight years later, ...
Advocacy groups for patients with neurologic disorders have become a common feature in the landscape of drug and device development and federal research funding allocation. On Capitol Hill, advocates ...
Self-Advocacy With Your Care Team Self-Advocacy at Work Self-Advocacy at School How to Set Boundaries With Friends and Family When you live with primary immunodeficiency (PI), daily routines, such as ...